Hw 15-Treasure Hunting

Jia Min,

I thought your post brought up a lot of great points. Like when you were comparing the books and was talking about how the Feed was doing the work for the kids and them expecting the feed to give them an answer and also related back to the Everything Bad is Good For You by saying how you’re using the net to connect and share your thoughts by writing this blog post. The last few sentences also brought up interesting questions to think about.

I think your main point was mostly about what the books where about and you touched on how these things related to your life. I thought you were trying to explore these topics because there were aspects of it you agreed with or disagreed and you didn’t know which side to be on because of it. I think they were both right, funnily enough.

I thought you could have add in your own experience with gaming since it relates to Johnson’s idea and adding can connect to it some more. But overall I thought your post was a good reaed.

Your post has also made me think about what other points there might be in this digital technology use and whether there was any middle ground in this or was it “good” like Everything Bad for you is Good seems to be saying or “bad” like Feed seems to say.

It was great reading your post. You brought up many interesting points. :)

Hi Na,

Your summaries of the book was really good, it talked about what the author said in a very succint way and people reading it could get what the chapters were about. All your paragraphs are really readable. I liked how you also added personal anecdotes and feelings when you are talking about the book, like when you are talking about gaming and the way it makes you feel.

When you said there are loopholes in everything, I agree and it’s in our nature to try to discover them. That’s why lawyers are able to manipulate the law the way they do and politicians. Maybe that’s what people are trying to do when playing a game, to see if an “impossible” situation has a loophole. The participatory nature of video games do make it more exciting and is what keeps us interested as well as the problems that crop up in the game. I find to some extent we do want to be challenged and want things that are harder to come by, like the way leveling works in virtual games, it gets harder to level each time you increase your level and that presents a challenge that is appealing, and even though people may complain about it, the feeling they get when they finally do level is greater than if it was that easy to level every time.

You said a lot of great reactions about your experiences in video games and television, you could develop what perspectives you find useful and what perspectives are not as useful and why. Haha, I found your comment a bit dramatic, to do away with reading altogether since reading has its own virtues as well.

Overall I thought this was very good and had a lot of good points like the way people might experience and learn from using technology. Great post :D